Why is it that disability advocacy orgs specifically are sometimes the actual, absolute WORST at supporting their own disabled employees? It shouldn't be the case that I've heard these horror stories of denied accommodations, retaliation, firings from dozens of disabled people.

This is a rhetorical question of course. The answer is lateral ableism, and often other intersecting forms of oppression, coming down on individual employees. Hierarchies of disability are real. Disabled people who are "too much" will get pushed out. Even by disability orgs.

No, I'm not talking about when someone who's disabled is fired for good reason, like someone who made death threats or who sexually harassed people. I'm talking about disabled people who aren't assholes+can do the job, but are subjected to a hostile+unaccommodating environment.

And this of course still is separate from another conversation we have to have. That being fired shouldn't be devastating in the might-lose-access-to-healthcare or might-become-homeless way. It's profoundly fucked that society makes health, housing, food contingent on work.

It infuriates me to no end to know that even disability orgs (yes, plural) led by disabled people have forced disabled people out, either by creating an environment so hostile+unaccommodating that employees quit or by outright firing them. But worse than that, it disappoints me.

We should be better than this. We should be creating spaces and processes that support people and figure out how to make things work. That adapt. That are flexible. We should not be upholding and perpetuating the systems that see us as burdensome, expendable, disposable.